Monday, May 14, 2018
Ayad Akhtar's follow-the-money hostage drama "The Invisible Hand" continues to strike Connecticut theatergoers. The play had a successful production at the Westport Country Playhouse in the …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:15PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 13, 2018
'It's the renovation season," declares Rob Ruggiero, TheaterWorks' producing artistic director. Which means it's also the relocation season. Theaterworks has announced five of the six shows …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 8, 2018
In February of 1961, South African playwright Athol Fugard jotted down in his diary an eight-paragraph description of an argument he'd witnessed during "a party at the flat of a Catholic wom…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Trixie Mattel, who recently won on the third season of "RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars," has released two albums in the past two years. Last year she started a web series called "UNHhhh," with…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]The Hartford Symphony Orchestra has regularly turned to Broadway musicals for its concert content. On May 19 at 7:30 p.m. in The Bushnell's Mortensen Hall, the affectionate topic is "Love on…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Who's still on the short list of rock and roll stars who haven't had a musical written about them? Dion DiMucci, who in September of 1961 introduced us to "Runaround Sue" and then two months…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 1, 2018
'Comedians" is a cunning sociopolitical drama from 1975 by British playwright Trevor Griffiths. The drama is set in a class for aspiring comedians, and the second act shows the students perf…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:10AM[SHARE]'Polkadots: The Cool Kids Musical" is an allegory about segregation and dealing with prejudice. The story, which is also about friendship and being accepted by one's peers, concerns an 8-yea…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:05AM[SHARE]Connecticut Ballet calls its spring concert "Russian Classics!" but also notes that two of these three classics have not been danced in Connecticut before. Old and famous, then, but perhaps …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:50AM[SHARE]The national tour of the Broadway hit "Motown the Musical" played The Bushnell in the spring of 2016, then returned to Broadway shortly afterward, where it added another few weeks to its nea…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:40AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 26, 2018
Radicals. Choirs. A billion nights. A big read. Whodini. Ruth B. Kaki King. A dance to the Beatles. Stories from survivors. Five merchants of Venice. The International Festival of Arts & Ide…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:45PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Rob Santos lives two lives. They're both pretty funny. You can glimpse both of them May 3, when two episodes of the local comedian's new web series "Beige on Both Sides" premiere in a specia…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:50AM[SHARE]Monday, April 23, 2018
Ballet Theatre Company recently brought on new artistic director Stephanie Dattellas, who is choreographing a new production of the Prokofiev ballet "Cinderella" as its big spring production…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:40PM[SHARE]Those who love David Yazbek's current Broadway hit "The Band's Visit" might want to check out his first " and very different " musical, "The Full Monty." It's based on the 1997 movie about s…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 19, 2018
Evan Yionoulis is happy to talk about her exciting career transition, from longtime Yale School of Drama faculty member to the new head of the theater program at Juilliard. She's eager to di…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:25AM[SHARE]In recent weeks, Hartford Stage has mourned the deaths of two people who guided the theater through periods of great expansion and artistic growth, and who are considered key figures in the …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:05AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Laurie Berkner's latest appearance in Connecticut will be a different experience for the children's music star's fans, who are used to seeing her being chased around the stage and playing ot…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:20PM[SHARE]It was inevitable that the 1994 Australian movie "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" would become a musical. It contains all the ingredients necessary for modern musical theat…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:15PM[SHARE]Connecticut has heard quite a lot from Steve Martin in recent years. His play "Meteor Shower" premiered at the Long Wharf Theatre before it was done (with a different cast and director) on B…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:10PM[SHARE]Here's how "The Will Rogers Follies" ropes you in. The boisterous bio-musical, with a bouncy score by Cy Coleman and snappy lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green was a Tony-winning Broadwa…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:15AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 12, 2018
Hartford Stage has filled in the sole "to be announced" slot on its 2018-19 schedule, and it's a funny choice. A very, very, funny choice. What you might call an international laugh riot. Th…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00PM[SHARE]Sonia Plumb thinks big and works hard to make her big thoughts happen. So it's not surprising that her latest work " "The Dance of da Vinci" " was inspired by one of the biggest thinkers in …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 11, 2018
The final show of Connecticut Repertory Theatre's main school-year season is the Shakespeare comedy "As You Like It." That's the one where an ace wrestler named Orlando wanders into the fore…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00PM[SHARE]Friday, April 6, 2018
Edith Wharton's novel "The Age of Innocence" exquisitely evokes the rarified realm of upper-class New York society in the 1870s. Playwright Douglas McGrath and director Doug Hughes won't let…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 4, 2018
As a cast member of "Crowns," a gospel play getting a major revival at the Long Wharf Theatre April 18 through May 13, actress Rebecca Covington wears a lot of hats. "With most shows," Covin…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:00PM[SHARE]Monday, April 2, 2018
Jesse Eisenberg, the actor known for everything from "The Social Network" to "The End of the Tour" to "Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice" is also a playwright. His comic drama "The Revisio…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00PM[SHARE]'Rent" is due again. The game-changing 1996 Broadway and off Broadway hit is credited with introducing younger, hipper audiences to musical theater. It also helped craft marketing tools that…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00PM[SHARE]Five years of steady growth and better organization. How funny is that? When Hartford comedy group Sea Tea Improv started the Hartford Improv Festival in 2014, the event featured more than t…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:40AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Mike Vogel's "Second Chance" is a baby boomer-friendly comedy about a septuagenarian curmudgeon named Jack who is reluctantly placed into the assisted-living system by his middle-aged son. T…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 24, 2018
Here's what you can expect to hear next season at Hartford Stage: Henry V's battle cry of "Once more unto the breach!" and the sage advice "Eat your halibut and mind your own business" from …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:15AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 21, 2018
'I can understand why I'm mad at Dorothy. She dropped a house on my sister and stole my shoes!" The Wicked Witch of the West isn't all green skin and pointy hat. Emily Perzan, who plays the …
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